Bruce Momjian wrote:
Gavin Sherry wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:I totally agree. After all, oracle provides such tools to their customers.
- what about Oracle portability.How about an external tool that helps in translating apps to
IMHO we should rethink if we could make those people happy. How about a
loadable personality (IIRC SAPDB has something like that), to exchange
the parser in use with a custom one (by a SET command)? This way we have
a pure ansi default, while enabling a way so someone could contribute an
oracle style parser.
SQL-standard syntax? Oracle does accept the standard syntax after all.
That way we are truly helping people liberate themselves: they can
switch to any SQL-compliant database, not only Postgres.
Should this be a TODO?
An external tool helping translating sql is fine, but nothing to be defined todo for core pgsql IMHO. I still believe some minor "oracle helper" behaviour (not to call it oracle compatibility, to avoid wrong expectations) should be added. Currently, pgsql appears a bit arrogant towards those oracle centric people (always a matter of point of view, of course). We could avoid this by offering some concessions.
Regards, Andreas
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